COMMISSION’S AID PACKAGE WILL NOT COMBAT DAIRY WOES, CHARGES INDUSTRY
August 1st, 2016
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s latest EUR500 million support package for European farmers, finalised at an August 26 European Union (EU) committee in Brussels, will not ease the dairy crisis, European dairy groups have warned.
“Production cuts is the label used to describe the current package of measures,” said the EU farm lobby group European Milk Board (EMB)’s president Romuald Schaber following the initial announcement of the plans in July. “But merely EUR150 million shall be used for measures to reduce milk production, not nearly enough in light of the ...
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